Marcel Proust: Volume One
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few literary biographies have achieved the stature of George D. Painter's monumental Marcel Proust, a work that stands as the definitive life of one of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures. Volume One chronicles the formative years of Marcel Proust — from his bourgeois Parisian childhood through his glittering ascent into the salons of the French aristocracy — illuminating the real-world experiences and relationships that would be transmuted into the vast cathedral of In Search of Lost Time. Painter traces Proust's complex inner life with meticulous precision, uncovering the sources of his obsessions with memory, desire, time, and social performance in the lived texture of late nineteenth-century France. Written with the narrative grace of a novelist and the scholarly rigor of a seasoned biographer, Painter's account argues compellingly that Proust's art was inseparable from his life — that every character, every drawing room, and every heartbreak in the great novel has its origin in verifiable biographical fact. This approach, itself a kind of literary archaeology, transformed the way readers and scholars understand the relationship between an artist and his work. A book that is at once a portrait of a singular genius and a panorama of the Belle Époque, it leaves the reader with an urgent desire to return to Proust himself — and to see his pages with entirely new eyes.
Author: George D. Painter
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few literary biographies have achieved the stature of George D. Painter's monumental Marcel Proust, a work that stands as the definitive life of one of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures. Volume One chronicles the formative years of Marcel Proust — from his bourgeois Parisian childhood through his glittering ascent into the salons of the French aristocracy — illuminating the real-world experiences and relationships that would be transmuted into the vast cathedral of In Search of Lost Time. Painter traces Proust's complex inner life with meticulous precision, uncovering the sources of his obsessions with memory, desire, time, and social performance in the lived texture of late nineteenth-century France. Written with the narrative grace of a novelist and the scholarly rigor of a seasoned biographer, Painter's account argues compellingly that Proust's art was inseparable from his life — that every character, every drawing room, and every heartbreak in the great novel has its origin in verifiable biographical fact. This approach, itself a kind of literary archaeology, transformed the way readers and scholars understand the relationship between an artist and his work. A book that is at once a portrait of a singular genius and a panorama of the Belle Époque, it leaves the reader with an urgent desire to return to Proust himself — and to see his pages with entirely new eyes.